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Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures

By: Julie L. Holcomb

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Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures

By: Julie L. Holcomb

Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures brings together historic objects, documents, artwork, and the natural and built environments to tell the full story of this important event in American history. The American Civil War still matters. It matters because the war—its causes and its consequences— continue to influence America as a nation. At its core, the Civil War was about slavery. Began as a fight to secure the future of slavery, the Civil War resulted instead in the abolition of slavery. The complex racial issues at its core, however, remain with us today. Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures begins with the causes of the war, examining objects that tell the story of slavery and its expansion in the nineteenth century. Cultural treasures representing the war years explore the battlefield and the homefront and the men and women caught up in the war as well the ways in which the scale of the war forced technological innovations. Given the centrality of slavery, race, and emancipation in the story of the Civil War, one section presents objects that detail how free and enslaved blacks transformed the war effort and were in turn transformed by the war. In the final section, the historic treasures trace the ongoing impact of the war, including the dramatic increase in the removal of Confederate monuments in the summer of 2020. Each object's story is detailed with color photos that draw readers into the story of the American Civil War. Many of these objects appear here in print for the first time.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538118564

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Witch Sister, Wolf Brother

A Hallowedspell Novel; Deacon Tales: Tale Five

By: Julie Steimle

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Witch Sister, Wolf Brother

A Hallowedspell Novel; Deacon Tales: Tale Five

By: Julie Steimle

It had been over ten years since she had escaped from the asylum her parents sent her to after her divorce. She had a nervous break down, they said. She said she saw her thirteen-year-old son transform into a wolf, who then chased after her. Everyone thought she was insane--except H. Richard Deacon III. But then, she was his mother. The continued story of Howard Richard Deacon the III in the Hallowedspell universe, where witchcraft is dangerously real and things that are ordinary are not what they seem.

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BookRix

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3736840160

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Historic Irvington

By: Julie Young

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Historic Irvington

By: Julie Young

Founded in 1870, historic Irvington serves as a time capsule to the bygone days of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The once autonomous community along the Pennsylvania Railroad and U.S. Route 40 has a history as rich and spellbinding as the legendary tales of its namesake, Washington Irving. Featuring plenty of architectural diversity and notable citizens, Irvington served as the original home to Butler University and became known as a cultural, arts, and academic pillar of the Indianapolis landscape. Today Irvington continues to be the gem of Indianapoliss east side with locally owned shops and businesses along with a community that is committed to the past while focusing on the future.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439619204

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Perilous Passages

The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534–1934

By: Julie Chappell

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Perilous Passages

The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534–1934

By: Julie Chappell

This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present.

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Springer

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1137277688

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Three Wicked Rogues

A Regency Romance Collection

By: Julie Johnstone

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Three Wicked Rogues

A Regency Romance Collection

By: Julie Johnstone

Three swoon-worthy historical romances in one boxed set! USA Today bestselling author Julie Johnstone’s Whisper of Scandal Regency Romance series sizzles from the first page to the last. Be prepared to be swept away by a dashing duke, a wicked rogue, and a dangerous lord! Venture from the glittering ballrooms to the decadent countryside of England where love is a game for the cunning and not the faint of heart. Book 1 - Bargaining With a Rake For eleven years, Gillian Rutherford has dreamed of escaping her family’s dark secret and living a normal life. Now, faced with an unwelcome marriage that will chain her to London and the secret slowly killing her, she’s desperate to save herself and the sister she adores. Salvation comes in the form of an American shipping tycoon, and all she must do is seduce him into marrying her. But Gillian’s scheme hits a snag when she makes a bargain with a notorious rake Alexander Trevelle, Lord Lionhurst. He’ll help her win the hand of his American friend, if she’ll assist him with exacting revenge against her unwanted fiancé. But the price of the pact may just be their hearts. Book 2 – Conspiring with a Rogue In order to save the man she loves from the enemy bent on destroying her, Lady Whitney Rutherford sheds her identity and escapes her past, making a new life for herself as Mr. Roger Wentworth, missing person locator extraordinaire. But when Whitney's best friend from her old life comes up missing and there is every indication the girl was taken by the debauched members of a secret club, Whitney dons a new disguise and infiltrates the club, determined to unravel the mystery and save her friend. She never expects to encounter Drake Sutherland―the man who still has her heart. In the dark world of pleasure and sin, Whitney must play a dangerous game and one wrong move could mean the death of her friend or the destruction of the man she loves. Book 3 – Dancing with a Devil A Lord Chained To His Past… Lord Trent Rutherford’s past has left him guarded, jaded and perfectly content to spend the rest of his life moving from one meaningless affair to the next. Until he meets Lady Audrey Cringlewood, an innocent beauty who makes him question everything he believes. His devilish demeanor guards more than a wounded heart. Behind his swagger lie secrets he’d rather forget than face, but the price of forgetting may be his second chance at life. A Lady Determined To Shape Her Future… Audrey Cringlewood longs to marry for love, not convenience. After several months of flirtatious banter, secret smiles and three very unforgettable kisses, Trent Rutherford, the rake known as Sin, proves himself the man of her dreams. Audrey suspects she understands the pain he hides behind his devil may care attitude, but when the truth comes to light, is her love enough to heal all wounds or will the secrets Trent guarded so carefully tear them apart forever?

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Julie Johnstone

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0960045104

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9780960045105

Auto/biography in Canada

Critical Directions

By: Julie Rak

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Auto/biography in Canada

Critical Directions

By: Julie Rak

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on critical approaches, the essays explore auto/biography as a discourse about identity and representation in the context of numerous disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada looks at how life narratives are made in Canada . Originating from literary studies, history, and social work, the essays in this collection cover topics that range from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper death notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, Grey Owl and authenticity, France Théoret and autofiction, and a new reading of Stolen Life, the collaborative text by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak’s useful “big picture” introduction traces the history of auto/biography studies in Canada. While the contributors chart disciplinary shifts taking place in auto/biography studies, their essays are also part of the ongoing scholarship that is remaking ways to understand Canada.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889204780

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The Aftermath of Suffrage

Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945

By: Julie V. Gottlieb,Richard Toye

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The Aftermath of Suffrage

Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945

By: Julie V. Gottlieb,Richard Toye

This collection explores the aftermath of the Representation of the People Act, which gave some British women the vote. Experts examine the paths taken by both former-suffragists as well as their anti-suffragist adversaries, the practices of suffrage commemoration, and the changing priorities and formations of British feminism in this era.

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1137333006

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Kinn's The Medical Assistant - E-Book

By: Brigitte Niedzwiecki,Julie Pepper

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Kinn's The Medical Assistant - E-Book

By: Brigitte Niedzwiecki,Julie Pepper

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Medical Assisting** More than any other product on the market, the most successful Medical Assistants begin their careers with Kinn. Known for more than 65 years for its alignment with national curriculum standards, Kinn's The Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 15th Edition teaches the real-world administrative and clinical skills essential for a career in the modern medical office — always with a focus on helping you apply what you've learned. This edition features a new unit on advanced clinical skills and expanded content on telemedicine, infection control related to COVID-19, IV therapy, radiology, rehabilitation, insurance, coding, privacy, data security, and much more. With its approachable writing style appropriate for all levels of learners and a full continuum of separately sold adaptive solutions, real-world simulations, EHR documentation experience, and HESI remediation and assessment, quickly master the leading skills to prepare for certification and a successful career in the dynamic and growing Medical Assisting profession! - Comprehensive coverage of all administrative and clinical procedures complies with accreditation requirements. - Step-by-step, illustrated procedures include rationales and a focus on professionalism. - Electronic health record (EHR) coverage provides access to hands-on activities using SimChart® for the Medical Office (sold separately). - Applied learning approach incorporates threaded case scenarios and critical thinking applications. - Patient education and legal and ethical features at the end of each chapter reinforce legal and communications implications within Medical Assisting practice. - Key vocabulary terms and definitions are presented at the beginning of each chapter, highlighted in text discussions, and summarized in a glossary for quick reference. - NEW! Content aligns to 2022 Medical Assisting educational competencies. - NEW! Advanced Clinical Skills unit features three new chapters on IV therapy, radiology basics, and radiology positioning to support expanded medical assisting functions. - NEW! Coverage of telemedicine, enhanced infection control related to COVID-19, and catheterization. - NEW! Procedures address IV therapy, limited-scope radiography, applying a sling, and coaching for stool collection. - UPDATED! Coverage of administrative functions includes insurance, coding, privacy, data security, and more. - UPDATED! Online practice exam for the Certified Medical Assistant matches 2021 test updates. - EXPANDED! Information on physical medicine and rehabilitation. - EXPANDED! Content on specimen collection, including wound swab, nasal, and nasopharyngeal specimen collections.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant E-Book

By: Brigitte Niedzwiecki,Julie Pepper

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Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant E-Book

By: Brigitte Niedzwiecki,Julie Pepper

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Medical Assisting** More than any other product on the market, the most successful medical assistants begin their careers with Kinn. Known for more than 65 years for its alignment with national curriculum standards, Kinn's The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 15th Edition teaches the real-world administrative skills essential for a career in the modern medical office — always with a focus on helping you apply what you've learned. This edition features new and expanded content on insurance, coding, privacy and security, telehealth logistics, and much more. With its approachable writing style appropriate for all levels of learners and a full continuum of separately sold adaptive solutions, EHR documentation experience, and HESI remediation and assessment, quickly master the leading skills to prepare for certification and a successful career in the dynamic and growing administrative medical assisting profession! - Step-by-step, illustrated procedures include rationales and a focus on professionalism. - Electronic health record (EHR) coverage provides access to hands-on activities using SimChart® for the Medical Office (sold separately). - Applied learning approach incorporates threaded case scenarios and critical thinking applications. - Patient education and legal and ethical features at the end of each chapter reinforce legal and communications implications within medical assisting practice. - Key vocabulary terms and definitions are presented at the beginning of each chapter, highlighted in text discussions, and summarized in a glossary for quick reference. - Robust Evolve companion website offers procedure videos, practice quizzes, mock certification exams, and interactive learning exercises. - NEW! Content aligns to 2022 Medical Assisting educational competencies. - NEW and UPDATED! Comprehensive coverage of all administrative functions complies with accreditation requirements and includes insurance, coding, privacy and security, telehealth logistics, and more. - NEW! Artwork familiarizes you with the modern medical office and equipment.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443106606

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Someone Shot My Book

By: Julie Carr

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Someone Shot My Book

By: Julie Carr

Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Julie Carr asks vital ethical questions about the role of poetry—and of art in general—in a violent culture. She addresses issues such as the art of listening, the body and the avant-garde, gun violence, police brutality, reading and protest, and feminist responses to war in essays that are lucid, inventive, and informed by a life lived with poetry. Essays on poets Lorine Niedecker, Jean Valentine, Anne Carson, Lyn Hejinian, and Lisa Robertson detail some of the political, emotional, and spiritual work of these forerunners. A former dancer, Carr also takes up question of text, dance, performance, and race in an essay on the work of choreographer, writer, and visual artist Ralph Lemon and poet Fred Moten. Carr’s essays push past familiar boundaries between the personal/confessional and experimental/conceptual strains in American poetry. Pressing philosophical inquiries into the nature of gender, motherhood, fear, the body, and violence up against readings of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets, she asks us to consider the political and affective work of poetry in a range of contexts. Carr reports on her own practices, examining her concerns for research and narrative against her investment in lyric, as well as her history as a dancer and her work as curator and publisher. Carr’s breadth of inquiry moves well beyond the page, yet remains grounded in languages possibilities.

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University of Michigan Press

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047212384X

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The Emperor's Ostrich

By: Julie Berry

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The Emperor's Ostrich

By: Julie Berry

As young dairymaid Begonia tries to find her lost cow, Alfalfa, using a magical map, the Emperor goes missing from the royal palace and Begonia must use her wits to save the empire and get Alfalfa home safely.

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1596439580

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Innovative Skills to Support Well-being and Resiliency in Youth

By: Nicole Nicotera,Julie Anne Laser-Maira

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Innovative Skills to Support Well-being and Resiliency in Youth

By: Nicole Nicotera,Julie Anne Laser-Maira

This title emphasizes the step-by-step procedures readers will need to implement evidence-based, innovative techniques and skills that emphasize well-being and resilience in youth. The strategies are specifically chosen to capture and hold the interest of youth who are often reticent to counselling. Furthermore, the skills-based approach of the book aims to demystify what one actually does in session with youth by moving away from the vagueness of talk therapy when youth have nothing to say, and toward sessions that engage youth in action, stimulating communication and change.

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Oxford University Press

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0190657103

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Their Business Betrothal

By: Julie Brookman

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Their Business Betrothal

By: Julie Brookman

He came to town with a business proposal… Will he leave with a bride? John Butler’s positive his old friend is the perfect person to open a general store in his new settlement out West—but first he must convince the man’s daughter. The last thing Clara Morehouse wants as she takes over her family’s general store is to uproot and move out West. And her family won’t go without her. But after a rejected suitor tarnishes Clara’s reputation, a fake engagement for her protection brings Clara and John closer. Can John show her that a new beginning is just what she needs…starting with making their pretend betrothal real?

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Harlequin

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0369706706

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The Lottery Winner

By: Julie Bradley Garrett

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The Lottery Winner

By: Julie Bradley Garrett

Damaris Kelly is a beautiful eighteen-year-old girl from the small Midwest town of Linn, Missouri, located between the two great cities of Kansas City and St. Louis. After the tragic events that happened to her parents three years previously, she wins the $960 million lottery jackpot. Poverty no longer an issue, she goes on a frenetic spending spree, fulfilling her once-thwarted longing for spending money. She gives generously to the city of Linn as well as her talented musician brother, Bryan. To escape the excessive media attention, she books a four-month around-the-world voyage on the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner, where she meets a mysterious older gentleman and his friend who become her traveling companions. They show her not only the world as it is during the twenty-two port stops but the beautiful reality of the unseen world. Along the way, she encounters danger in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia and learns of the evil, crime, hopelessness, and poverty abounding in the world's largest and wealthiest cities. She learns the essence of true love and is forced to make extremely painful decisions. One lesson she learns is that, no matter how great the wealth, tragedy is often its silent partner.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1685263313

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Tourism and China's Development

Policies, Regional Economic Growth and Ecotourism

By: Julie Jie Wen,Clement Allan Tisdell

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Tourism and China's Development

Policies, Regional Economic Growth and Ecotourism

By: Julie Jie Wen,Clement Allan Tisdell

A discussion of the economic reforms which have substantially altered the economic structure of China since 1978. Although focused on China, the work deals with issues such as those involving the sustainability of tourism, and convergence and divergence in regional tourism development.

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World Scientific

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9810244339

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The Lion's Lady

By: Julie Garwood

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The Lion's Lady

By: Julie Garwood

Discover the first romance in New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood’s beloved Crown’s Spies series! Christina Bennett has taken London society by storm but the ravishing beauty has kept her mysterious past shrouded in secrecy. When the arrogant nobleman, Lyon, Marquis of Lyonwood, steals a sensuous kiss, however, he believes he tastes the wild fire smoldering beneath Christina’s cool charm and swears to possess her. But the feisty and defiant Christina cannot be so easily conquered. Mistress of her own heart and fortune, she resists Lyon’s passionate caresses and refuses to surrender to his desire for if she does, she must also forsake her precious secret and her promised destiny. With her “straightforward style and brisk pacing” (Kirkus Reviews), Julie Garwood’s classic romantic series is perfect for fans of Jude Deveraux and Julia Quinn.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451623186

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9781451623185

Ida Lupino, Director

Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

By: Therese Grisham,Julie Grossman

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Ida Lupino, Director

Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

By: Therese Grisham,Julie Grossman

Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on controversial subjects. But Ida Lupino bucked the system, writing and directing a string of movies that exposed the dark underside of American society, on topics such as rape, polio, unwed motherhood, bigamy, exploitative sports, and serial murder. The first in-depth study devoted to Lupino’s directorial work, this book makes a strong case for her as a trailblazing feminist auteur, a filmmaker with a clear signature style and an abiding interest in depicting the plights of postwar American women. Ida Lupino, Director not only examines her work as a cinematic auteur, but also offers a serious consideration of her diverse and long-ranging career, getting her start in Hollywood as an actress in her teens and twenties, directing her first films in her early thirties, and later working as an acclaimed director of television westerns, sitcoms, and suspense dramas. It also demonstrates how Lupino fused generic elements of film noir and the social problem film to create a distinctive directorial style that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic. Ida Lupino, Director thus shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813574927

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9780813574929

Julie Garwood Box Set

Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!

By: Julie Garwood

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Julie Garwood Box Set

Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!

By: Julie Garwood

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Ideal Man comes an eBook box set of passion, seduction, and revenge featuring three of Julie Garwood’s classic titles (The Gentle Warrior, Honour’s Splendour, and The Lion’s Lady).

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Simon and Schuster

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1451681887

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The Gift

By: Julie Garwood

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The Gift

By: Julie Garwood

An engrossing tale of love on the high seas from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood. Sara Winchester has joyfully anticipated the day when her husband Nathan, Marquess of St. James, will return to claim her heart at last. Charmingly innocent, she dismisses the ancient feud that divides Nathan's family from her own, the feud that their marriage was supposed to settle. But when he finally returns, Nathan is not the prince charming Sara had imagined. The man before her now is perplexing, arrogant and powerfully handsome—a notorious pirate whose touch arouses her to the wildest, deepest pleasures of love. Nathan has never bared his soul to any woman, but he's soon utterly beguiled and exasperated by Sara's sweet, defiant ways. Aboard his ship, The Seahawk, she is brave, imperious and determined to win his heart completely. But upon their return to England, Sara's love will be sorely tested as a vile conspiracy threatens to tear them apart...

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Penguin

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1101533153

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Guardian Angel; The Gift

By: Julie Garwood

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Guardian Angel; The Gift

By: Julie Garwood

Guardian Angel: The Marquess of Cainewood is bent on avenging his brother's death, and nothing can sway him from his hunt of the pirate Pagan, the despised scourge of London high society. Disguising himself as the scoundrel, Caine lays in wait for his prey -- but the trap is sprung by a beguiling vision with rippling red hair and fire-green eyes.\\The Gift: As the pirate Pagan, the Marquess of St. James spent much of his life secretly redistributing the wealth of aristocrats to England's poor. Now, weary of living on the edge, Nathan plans to kidnap the bride he was forced to wed as a child, and keep her just long enough to claim her fortune.

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1416507361

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Women and the Machine

Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age

By: Julie Wosk

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Women and the Machine

Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age

By: Julie Wosk

“An engaging study of the ways women and machines have been represented in art, photography, advertising, and literature.” —Arwen Palmer Mohun, University of Delaware From sexist jokes about women drivers to such empowering icons as Amelia Earhart and Rosie the Riveter, representations of the relationship between women and modern technology in popular culture have been both demeaning and celebratory. Depictions of women as timid and fearful creatures baffled by machinery have alternated with images of them as being fully capable of technological mastery and control—and of lending sex appeal to machines as products. In Women and the Machine, historian Julie Wosk maps the contradictory ways in which women’s interactions with—and understanding of—machinery has been defined in Western popular culture since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on both visual and literary sources, Wosk illuminates popular gender stereotypes that have burdened women throughout modern history while underscoring their advances in what was long considered the domain of men. Illustrated with more than 150 images, Women and the Machine reveals women rejoicing in their new liberties and technical skill even as they confront society’s ambivalence about these developments, along with male fantasies and fears. “Engaging and entertaining . . . Using illustrations, cartoons and photographs from the past three centuries, Wosk delineates shifts in social acceptance of women’s relationship to technology . . . her work is complex, comprehensive and highly readable.” —Publishers Weekly “Art historian Wosk analyzes the overt and covert messages in depictions of women and machines in an array of fiction and, more impressively, in some 150 visual images.” —Booklist

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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0801877814

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Reclaiming Assia Wevill

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination

By: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

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Reclaiming Assia Wevill

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination

By: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination reconsiders cultural representations of Assia Wevill (1927–1969), according her a more significant position than a femme fatale or scapegoat for marital discord and suicide in the lives and works of two major twentieth-century poets. Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick’s innovative study combines feminist recovery work with discussions of the power and gendered dynamics that shape literary history. She focuses on how Wevill figures into poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, showing that they often portrayed her in harsh, conflicted, even demeaning terms. Their representations of Wevill established condemnatory narratives that were perpetuated by subsequent critics and biographers and in works of popular culture. In Plath’s literary treatments, Goodspeed-Chadwick locates depictions of both desirable and undesirable femininity, conveyed in images of female bodies as beautiful but barren or as vehicles for dangerous, destructive acts. By contrast, Hughes’s portrayals illustrate the role Wevill occupied in his life as muse and abject object. His late work Capriccio constitutes a sustained meditation on trauma, in which Hughes confronts Wevill’s suicide and her killing of their daughter, Shura. Goodspeed-Chadwick also analyzes Wevill’s self-representations by examining artifacts that she authored or on which she collaborated. Finally, she discusses portrayals of Wevill in recent works of literature, film, and television. In the end, Goodspeed-Chadwick shows that Wevill remains an object of both fascination and anger, as she was for Plath, and a figure of attraction and repulsion, as she was for Hughes. Reclaiming Assia Wevill reconsiders its subject’s tragic life and lasting impact in regard to perceived gender roles and notions of femininity, power dynamics in heterosexual relationships, and the ways in which psychological traumas impact life, art, and literary imagination.

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LSU Press

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0807172286

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Eastside Indianapolis

A Brief History

By: Julie Young

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Eastside Indianapolis

A Brief History

By: Julie Young

Early Indianapolis was designed to only be one square mile, but as more settled in the Circle City, progress made its way across the Eastside. Through their dedication to maintaining the character of neighborhoods like Woodruff Place, Fountain Square and Irvington, Eastsiders have banded together time and again to preserve the memories of landmarks like the Rivoli Theatre and Al Green's. Julie Young, a lifelong resident of the Eastside, celebrates one of the most culturally diverse areas of Indianapolis as she illuminates the strength and determination that would make any resident proud to call the Eastside home.

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1625842619

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Disorganization Theory

Explorations in Alternative Organizational Analysis

By: John Hassard,Mihaela Kelemen,Julie Wolfram Cox

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Disorganization Theory

Explorations in Alternative Organizational Analysis

By: John Hassard,Mihaela Kelemen,Julie Wolfram Cox

The book presents a series of epistemological, conceptual and methodological explorations appropriate to the development of critical organizational analysis.

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Routledge

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0415417287

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Modernist Women Writers and War

Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein

By: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

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Modernist Women Writers and War

Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein

By: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged—one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war experience long narrated by men. In the past, Goodspeed-Chadwick explains, scholars have not considered writings by women as part of war literature. They have limited "war writing" to works by men, such as William Butler Yeats's poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (1919), which relies on a male perspective: a pilot contemplates his forthcoming flight, his duty to his country, and his life in combat. But works by Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein set in wartime reveal experiences and views of war markedly different from those of male writers. They write women and their bodies into their texts, thus creating space for female war writing, insisting on female presence in wartime, and, perhaps most significantly, critiquing war and patriarchal politics, often in devastating fashion. Goodspeed-Chadwick begins with Barnes, who in her surrealist novel Nightwood (1936) emphasizes the actual perversity of war by placing it in contrast to the purported perverse and deviant behavior of her main characters. In her epic poem Trilogy (1944–1946), H.D. validates female suffering and projects a feminist, spiritual worldview that fosters healing from the ravages of war. Stein, for her part, in her experimental novel Mrs. Reynolds (1952) and her long love poem Lifting Belly (1953), captures her experience of the everyday reality of war on the home front, within the domestic economy of her household. In these works, the female body stands as the primary textual marker or symbol of female identity—an insistence on women's presence in both the text and in the world outside the book. The strategies employed by Barnes, H.D., and Stein in these texts serve to produce a new kind of writing, Goodspeed-Chadwick reveals, one that ineluctably constructs a female identity within, and authorship of, the war narrative.

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LSU Press

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0807146617

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9780807146613

Quonset Hut

Metal Living for a Modern Age

By: Julie Decker,Chris Chiei

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Quonset Hut

Metal Living for a Modern Age

By: Julie Decker,Chris Chiei

An unexpected architectural phenomenon-something like a halved tin can turned on its side-swept across the American landscape after World War II: the Quonset hut. Originally designed during the war for use as makeshift housing for soldiers and their families around the world, the seemingly ubiquitous Quonset hut housed a rapidly expanding nation in the 1940s and 1950s both at work and at play. From recording studios-a Quonset was responsible for the birth of the "Nashville sound"--To the 1948 congressional campaign headquarters of Gerald Ford, to an endless variety of incarnations including bars, movie theaters, classrooms, supermarkets, restaurants, and houses of worship, the Quonset hut was the shape of a nation in need of affordable, easy-to-build shelter. Quonset Hut: Metal Living for a Modern Age is a fascinating look at a surprising architectural sensation and offers a refreshing, revealing, and untold story of a true American icon.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568985193

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9781568985190

Embrace the Struggle

Living Life on Life's Terms

By: Zig Ziglar,Julie Ziglar Norman

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Embrace the Struggle

Living Life on Life's Terms

By: Zig Ziglar,Julie Ziglar Norman

After years of speaking and writing bestsellers on the value of having a positive attitude, motivational speaker Zig Ziglar is faced with putting his words into action after a fall leaves him with a head injury. In Embrace the Struggle, Ziglar shares a personal account of his accident and offers encouragement through his firsthand experience of overcoming his most difficult challenge. One of the leading stars in the “positive thinking” movement, Zig Ziglar has made a career out of telling people how to have a positive attitude, no matter what their circumstances are. But when a fall down a stairway onto a marble floor leaves him with a head injury, he is challenged with how to put the principles he’d been speaking about into practice. Ziglar’s willingness to be transparent has him back writing and speaking with renewed energy before audiences in the tens of thousands to show that life on life’s terms is still well worth living. Embrace the Struggle affirms the validity of the principles Ziglar has held true his entire life and includes not only his account of living positively through difficult circumstances; it also includes heartwarming stories of real people who encouraged him with how they put into practice these vital principles.

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Simon and Schuster

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143915533X

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9781439155332

My Fair Ladies

Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

By: Julie Wosk

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My Fair Ladies

Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

By: Julie Wosk

The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has advanced over the past century, the figure of the lifelike manmade woman has become nearly ubiquitous, popping up in everything from Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science to The Stepford Wives. Now Julie Wosk takes us on a fascinating tour through this bevy of artificial women, revealing the array of cultural fantasies and fears they embody. My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been represented as objects of desire in fiction and how “living dolls” have been manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines the many works in which the “perfect” woman turns out to be artificial—a robot or doll—and thus becomes a source of uncanny horror. Finally, Wosk introduces us to a variety of female artists, writers, and filmmakers—from Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazan—who have cleverly crafted their own images of simulated women. Anything but dry, My Fair Ladies draws upon Wosk’s own experiences as a young female Playboy copywriter and as a child of the “feminine mystique” era to show how images of the artificial woman have loomed large over real women’s lives. Lavishly illustrated with film stills, artwork, and vintage advertisements, this book offers a fresh look at familiar myths about gender, technology, and artistic creation.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813563399

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Dangerous Masquerade

A sparkling Regency romance (The Regency Marriage Laws)

By: Julie Roberts

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Dangerous Masquerade

A sparkling Regency romance (The Regency Marriage Laws)

By: Julie Roberts

A sparkling new Regency romance novel from Julie Roberts, perfect for fans of Julia Quinn's BRIDGERTON, Sabrina Jeffries, Nicola Cornick, Grace Burrowes and Mary Balogh! Readers LOVE Julie Roberts: 'An enticing story with romance, drama, some fabulous obnoxious characters and a real flavour of the time' 5* NetGalley review on A Tainted Marriage 'A most enjoyable read. Intrigue and mystery with characters who have had issues and emotional traumas in the past and then misunderstandings throughout the course of their relationship until the inevitable and happy ending' 5* NetGalley review on A Tainted Marriage 'This is no ordinary Regency Romance. It is so well researched and written that you feel you're there with the characters all the time *****' Amazon Reviewer on The Hidden Legacy 'Meticulously researched *****' Amazon Reviewer on The Hidden Legacy 'Roberts has a sure, historical hand, and her use of a real 19th century marriage law to fire the plot is cunning *****' Amazon reviewer on A Tangle of Secrets ___________________________________________________________________________ A father's debt. A dutiful daughter. A dangerous dance for survival... Owing money, but with none incoming, the Reverend Edmund Jade has no choice but to give his consent for his daughter to marry the elderly Lord Horace Boxley. Torn between love for her father and loyalty to herself, Evelyn is forced to make a life changing decision - can she accept his command and sign herself away for a life she knows she'll never want? Evelyn isn't cattle to be sold and, bundling herself on board a stagecoach bound for London, she flees with no plan beyond escape. When the stagecoach axle collapses, killing the young Alice Grantham, Evelyn can't help but be shocked at how similar the girl looks to her. At how close she herself came to death. When a fellow passenger mistakes her for Alice, however, and gives her the dead girl's reticule complete with an introductory letter for the post of lady's companion, the way forward is clear: she must become Alice, if she is to escape Evelyn's fate. _____________________________________________________________________________ Don't miss Julie Roberts' captivating romances, including A Tangle of Secrets, A Tainted Marriage and The Hidden Legacy.

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Headline Accent

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178615983X

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Kansas City Christmas

By: Julie Miller

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Kansas City Christmas

By: Julie Miller

A detective with no badge, Edward Kincaid's brooding naturescared medical examiner Holly Masterson, but couldn't dimher holiday spirit. It was when she attracted a stalker thatthe most wonderful time of the year turned into the mostfrightening. Working together to reveal a conspiracy toomany people had died covering up, Holly found Edward'sprotection—and powerful embrace—hard to resist. Now, asnew clues surfaced, could she bust the case wide open andgive her silent knight the Christmas miracle he deserved?

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